Chapter 1135: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1135: Aren't You Also Someone About to Die?

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

In the blink of an eye, the next morning arrived, and Wang Changgen had visibly grown thinner and older.

His whole person carried a decadent aura emanating from within.

He was no longer speaking nonsense, but had also become silent and uncommunicative.

All the way from Wang Dashan's home to the hospital, he didn't say a single word.

He just stared vacantly at the scenery outside the car window.

Arriving at the hospital, they reported to the nurse station, and then went to do various examinations.

The examination process was very tedious and exhausting.

On top of that, the hospital was crowded with people everywhere, making the atmosphere even more anxious.

Li Xiulan looked at Wang Changgen beside her, and her mind involuntarily recalled the events from many years ago when she took her mother to a city hospital for treatment.

The various circumstances back then now unfolded before her page by page like flipping through an old book; although the images had yellowed, they were still clearly visible.

She clearly remembered that at that time her two brothers had already run out of money and came to discuss their mother's funeral arrangements with her; after learning the situation, she finally gritted her teeth and decided to take out all the money on her person to treat her mother's illness.

To treat her mother's illness, she spent over ten thousand yuan in total.

That ten thousand-plus, at that time, was a huge sum of money.

Its purchasing power would be equivalent to at least over a hundred thousand now.

At that time, she had only one thought in her heart: to do things with a clear conscience!

But it was precisely because of this that she ended up losing both the person and the money; the new house being built at home was therefore left unfinished and shelved.

And now, seeing her own two sons spare no effort to treat their father, she felt myriad emotions; how strikingly similar this was to her situation back then!

Perhaps this is what is called reincarnation, what is called fate.

After completing all the examinations for Wang Changgen, they had him admitted to the hospital.

The hospital's inpatient department was very crowded; a room had six beds.

When Wang Changgen just walked in, he saw many nurses surrounding a bed in the corner; although that bed had its curtain drawn, Wang Changgen could still guess what was happening inside.

He guessed someone had passed away, and the doctors and nurses were performing emergency resuscitation.

Wang Changgen smelled the disinfectant in the air, and an indescribable sense of resistance rose in his heart.

Looking at the next bed, where lay a seventy- or eighty-year-old man, sallow as wax, breathing faintly, his heart felt not just resistance, but also irrepressible fear.

After the doctors and nurses busied themselves for a while at that bed in the corner, they hurriedly pushed it out.

The patient's family followed behind, weeping bitterly.

"Sigh, another one gone."

The old man on the next bed suddenly uttered this softly.

Though his voice was light, it was like a heavy hammer striking Wang Changgen's nerves.

At that moment, his mind held no other thoughts, only one:

"Go back, I want to go back, no more hospitalization!"

Wang Changgen, as if having lost his soul, stood up and tried to leave.

Wang Dashan hurriedly held him back:

"Dad, don't be afraid, we're here with you, you must face this positively, this illness must be treated, we've already prepaid fifty thousand yuan for hospitalization fees."

Wang Changgen darkened his face and flared up:

"This isn't a place for people to live, okay! They're all people about to die! If I stay here I'll probably die even faster!"

The decrepit old man on the next bed said in a low voice: "Aren't you also someone about to die?"

Wang Changgen collapsed completely, his whole body trembling.

Wang Erhai was very angry:

"Can you not speak nonsense? We don't even know you!"

Only then did that old man stop speaking, merely looking with mockery in his eyes.

Wang Dashan hurriedly comforted Wang Changgen:

"Dad, don't think like that, okay! The doctors all said your illness can be cured! But the premise is active cooperation with treatment!"

Wang Erhai also persuaded:

"Dad, no matter what, you must try this first course of treatment; if the effect isn't good, we'll think of other methods."

Li Xiulan, however, took a more open view:

"If he doesn't want treatment, then don't force it; you don't have the illness so you speak lightly; when you're old and experience similar suffering, you'll know what he truly feels inside."

Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai, hearing this, didn't know what to say for a moment.

Li Xiulan then said to Wang Changgen:

"If you don't want treatment, then let's go back to Shangou Village; but when the time comes and you die, don't blame it on your three sons."

Wang Changgen hesitated again.

He indeed strongly resisted the hospital ward environment permeated with the breath of death, but he also still had a full will to live.

So in the end he still steeled himself and chose to stay.

In the blink of an eye it was afternoon; the doctor brought several young assistants, probably his graduate students, to the ward to explain the specific treatment plan to Wang Changgen:

Chemotherapy plus immunotherapy.

Start with the chemotherapy drugs that have the smallest side effects.

The dosage also goes from small to large.

First test the cancer cells' sensitivity to the chemotherapy drugs.

If a small dose can achieve a good effect, then proceed with high-dose chemotherapy.

After explaining the treatment plan in detail to Wang Dashan, Wang Erhai, and Li Xiulan.

Then came a stack of informed consent forms.

These are filled with various risk disclosures; signing means you acknowledge and accept these risks.

The doctor had his graduate students come explain the various risk clauses in these to Wang Dashan, Wang Erhai, and Li Xiulan.

When Wang Zhanggen was hospitalized for cerebral infarction before, the family also signed various risk disclosure forms, but that time there weren't nearly this many.

Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai, and Li Xiulan, listened without understanding much.

Li Xiulan need not be mentioned — an old village woman with only a primary school diploma, how could she understand these?

Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai count as relatively educated and experienced, but much of the content was still incomprehensible, especially when it involved medical terminology; they listened in a complete fog.

In the end, Wang Dashan, as the family representative, signed on the various risk disclosure forms.

"During the first phase of chemotherapy, when first exposed to the chemo drugs, the body's reaction may be relatively strong, so hospitalization for observation is needed; this is why the patient was arranged for hospitalization. Once the body gradually adapts later, hospitalization won't be needed — just come once or twice a week. I suggest you can rent a house nearby to stay; that would be more convenient for treatment."

The doctor explained patiently and gave his suggestion.

Wang Dashan hurriedly said:

"I have a house nearby; it's less than twenty minutes by car, no need to rent."

The doctor glanced at Wang Dashan, nodded, and said:

"Then fine; once the physical exam results come out, we'll start treatment tomorrow!"

After the doctor finished his instructions, he left in a rush with his graduate students in tow.

Because he doesn't only have Wang Zhanggen as a patient; he simultaneously needs to follow up on ten or so other patients' conditions.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning.

Chemotherapy began.

So-called chemotherapy is actually just an IV infusion.

Infusing the chemotherapy drugs into the body.

The chemo reaction was even more severe than imagined.

This was only the first day of low-dose chemo; just after the infusion finished, Wang Zhanggen was nauseated beyond endurance — he vomited whatever he ate, even water came up.

"Can't take it, can't take it — is this treating the illness or killing a person? Why such suffering?"

Wang Zhanggen vomited until snot and tears came out together.

His whole body trembled.

Wang Dashan encouraged from the side:

"Dad, hold on; chemo has side effects, but as long as you persist through the phase with the strongest reaction, it'll get much better later. Dad, you'll definitely defeat the disease demon!"